The Journal Of Sierra Leone Studies

Editor: John Birchall

Welcome to The Journal of Sierra Leone Studies. This is the first Journal
dedicated solely to Sierra Leone to have been published for a long time.

We hope that it will be of use to academics, students and anyone with an
interest in what for many is a rather ‘special’ country.

The Journal will not concentrate on one area of academic study and invites
contributions from anyone researching and writing on Sierra Leone to send their
articles to: John Birchall for consideration.

Prospective contributions should be between 3500-5000 words in length, though we
will in special circumstances consider longer articles and authors can select
whether they wish to be peer reviewed or not. Articles should not have appeared
in any other published form before.

The Editorial Board reserves the right to suggest changes they consider are
needed to the relevant author (s) and to not publish if such recommendations are
ignored.

We are particularly interested to encourage students working on subjects
specifically relating to Sierra Leone to submit their work.

Thank you so much for visiting The Journal and we hope that you (a) find it both
interesting and of use to you and (b) that you will inform colleagues, friends
and students of the existence of a Journal dedicated to the study of Sierra
Leone.